Word: cures
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...Whenever Joel is stymied by Suzie's sweatpants, he ends up at the sports bar at the nearby Marriott, the aptly named Sidelines, where his old pal Dean (Ben Affleck, shaggy as a bear) tends bar. Dean believes Xanax is the cure for everything, including the common cold. Their conversations head in absurd directions - Dean thinks Joel should hire a gigolo to seduce Suzie so he can sleep with the alluring Cindy guilt-free, a suggestion that ultimately does more damage than Cindy does - but at the same time have a real naturalism. Imagine Pulp Fiction's Jules and Vincent...
...infections occur among married people who have more than one long-term relationship at the same time. "Since so much transmission is taking place in long-term relationships, especially in Uganda [female condoms] are unlikely to have much impact," Helen Epstein, the author of the book The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa, tells TIME. "The problem is the same as with male condoms. They signify mistrust, they are awkward to use and they inhibit conception, which many couples want...
...wrote on his blog. "Yes, extra credit for either, but I want this to be a challenge that everyone can accept, whether you live in a Manhattan walk-up or rural North Carolina, Alaska or suburban splendor. From scratch means: You grow your tomato, you grow your lettuce, you cure your own bacon or pancetta, you bake your own bread (wild yeast is preferred and gets higher marks but is not required), you make your own mayo." (See pictures: "What the World Eats, Part...
...bacon, the BLTini - vodka shaken with tomato water (extracted from an heirloom tomato, of course), vermouth and a basil leaf posing as lettuce, garnished with a crispy bacon bite. And if you drink too many, you can cook up his recipe for braised pork belly, touted as a hangover cure. (Read "What's Cooking? Bacon, for Dessert...
...actual barrel, but the unit has been the industry's standard ever since the overwhelmed Pennsylvania oilmen struck their first gusher. Before U.S. drilling began in 1859, "rock oil" (to differentiate it from vegetable oil or animal fat) was sopped up with rags, wrung out and peddled as a cure for everything from headaches to deafness. Spurred by demand for lamp fuel as whale blubber grew scarce, derricks popped up all over Pennsylvania's oil region in the 1860s, although subsequent overproduction drove prices so far down that at one point, a wooden barrel was worth twice as much...